Drum major Wayne DeShields, 16, a senior at Central High School in Tulsa, Okla., led his school's marching band yesterday as the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade made its way down Seventh Avenue in downtown San Diego.

The drums were beating and the feet marching. The flags were waving, the crowds cheering, the batons flying high. And within all that beating and marching, within all the waving and cheering was the dream. The dream was simply everywhere.